As a follow-up to the previous article about Craig Wright's supposed key signings, last year I produced a short proof-of-concept video showing a similar seemingly legitimate key signing with Satoshi's genesis block key. It was fake of course, which most people immediately understood, but it might be informative to go through exactly how it was faked, so as to highlight the kinds of tricks used and what to watch out for when scrutinizing this kind of evidence.
July 27, 2023
July 1, 2021
Private Presentations Aren't Proof
Sometimes we're not comfortable drawing conclusions until all the dots have been sufficiently connected. Let's see if we can do that for one of the more annoying open "mysteries" surrounding Craig Wright: how did he pull off the private key signings?
February 9, 2021
MtGox payout guide and calculator
As there is a lot of confusion surrounding how the MtGox civil rehabilitation distribution will happen, here is an attempt to share my understanding of things, and an interactive calculator for estimating your possible payouts.
January 17, 2021
Earlier MtGox payouts? No thanks to CoinLab
The MtGox civil rehabilitation trustee recently submitted a draft rehabilitation plan for distributing the assets of MtGox. The plan is not final and is currently being reviewed by the Japanese court, following which it will also need to be voted on by all creditors, and after that the practical matters of registering for payouts needs to happen, so this does not mean payouts are imminent or that the trustee is about to dump coins on the market. This always has to be explicitly pointed out as some so-called journalists love spreading FUD about this for clicks.